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TravelinMan
Anyway, songs like Happy and Tumbling Dice would have benefited from Taylor's lead, especially if he was allowed to work out a part. Like Richards admitted: he, himself is not a lead guitarist. He sounds like Chuck Berry in slow motion. Don't get me wrong, he's one of the greatest rhythm guitar composers of all time, I think he should have stuck to that on this album.
This.
Just imagine what Mick Taylor could've done with Tumbling Dice -a flurry of triplets and trills then a trip up and back the pentatonic major in thirds followed by more trills and triplets. Heaven!! (did not Mick write 'Heaven' as a paean to what'Tumbling Dice' might have been had not Keith stuck his slow motion fingers in there?)
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LuxuryStones
I don't think they ever performed it live with Taylor. In 1995 they played it in Paradiso, Amsterdam.
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Thanks LuxuryStones! I saw him play a bit of it on Jimmy Fallon that left me salivating for more. I really hope they let Taylor play a little more.
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ozziestone
In 2012 Rolling Stone placed MT 30 something in its 100 greatest guitarists list. The commentary referred to his "brilliant" imitation of a harmonica in All Down the Line. Can't quite hear that myself-anybody else?
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bigmac7895
I thought the lead in ADTL was a battle between Taylor on slide and Jagger on harp.
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bigmac7895
I thought the lead in ADTL was a battle between Taylor on slide and Jagger on harp.
It is, but the Rolling Stone comment is kind of redundant anyway since virtually all slide guitarists are heavily influenced by harp players and their sense of timing / phrasing.
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bigmac7895
I thought the lead in ADTL was a battle between Taylor on slide and Jagger on harp.
It is, but the Rolling Stone comment is kind of redundant anyway since virtually all slide guitarists are heavily influenced by harp players and their sense of timing / phrasing.
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smokeydusky
Taylor has said that harp players are useful to listen to for ideas on how to use open tunings on guitar.
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LuxuryStones
This is another useful remark coming from Mick Taylor:
"...and also it’s good to forget about the regular bottleneck tunings sometimes and just put on a slide and see what you can do with a slide in regular tuning, and switch from one to the other. Because as soon as you put the guitar in an open tuning, you’re limiting yourself. But if you can just leave the guitar as it is, in regular tuning, and put on a slide, you can discover all sorts of things and get away from the regular kind of bottleneck clichés."
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LuxuryStones
This is another useful remark coming from Mick Taylor:
"...and also it’s good to forget about the regular bottleneck tunings sometimes and just put on a slide and see what you can do with a slide in regular tuning, and switch from one to the other. Because as soon as you put the guitar in an open tuning, you’re limiting yourself. But if you can just leave the guitar as it is, in regular tuning, and put on a slide, you can discover all sorts of things and get away from the regular kind of bottleneck clichés."
I agree with him. I also remember reading him saying he uses a fairly high string height, which makes it a little harder for normal playing but it facilitates his slide playing, so he can alternate between the two in the same regular tuning.
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LuxuryStones
This is another useful remark coming from Mick Taylor:
"...and also it’s good to forget about the regular bottleneck tunings sometimes and just put on a slide and see what you can do with a slide in regular tuning, and switch from one to the other. Because as soon as you put the guitar in an open tuning, you’re limiting yourself. But if you can just leave the guitar as it is, in regular tuning, and put on a slide, you can discover all sorts of things and get away from the regular kind of bottleneck clichés."
I agree with him. I also remember reading him saying he uses a fairly high string height, which makes it a little harder for normal playing but it facilitates his slide playing, so he can alternate between the two in the same regular tuning.
I would think any musician/guitar player would do this. I don't Taylor is saying anything new or unknown to the handful of great guitarists out there.
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LuxuryStones
He's giving advice for beginning players, if I remember it well. And I have never seen a beginning guitarist playing a major scale with a slide, although this would have a tremendous impact on the accuracy and melodic variation. So from an educational point of view Taylor has a valid point here, even if he's not the only one.
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banditpanda
Any players out there that can help me with this?
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Hope this isn't too old to resurrect? I have learned to play Happy playing Keith's parts in open G but from live performances from the Taylor era I cannot figure out what Mick T is playing. In parts I hear him playing 3 chords repetitively which are not the major chords of the song.
Anybody have any in sight into that ?
Thanks in advance.
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DandelionPowderman
They both played slides on Happy. Keith stopped playing slide on it as late as 1989.
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JakeA
Here is the best instrumental version i found, Taylor`s guitar is much better audible than in final version.
Taylor plays on a left channel troughout the song ,starting from 00:5
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JakeA
Here is the best instrumental version i found, Taylor`s guitar is much better audible than in final version.
Taylor plays on a left channel troughout the song ,starting from 00:5